the rapid escalation of euthanasia and assisted suicide cases in the Netherlands,Oregon and Switzerland in recent years but Belgium is eclipsing all of these countries in the race to become the ‘world leader’.

"There is no evidence base to operationalize 'unbearable suffering,' there are no prospective studies of decision-making capacity in persons seeking EAS for psychiatric reasons, and the prognosis of patients labeled as 'treatment-resistant depression' varies considerably."

Delving into the data released in the Lancet recently about the latest figures on the incidence of euthanasia in the Netherlands there are clear indications that the claims that euthanasia deaths are not rising is unsustainable.

Recent reports on the release of the 2010 Dutch euthanasia figures have tended to suggest that the garden is rosy in the Netherlands. UK Care Not Killing Alliance director, Dr. Peter Saunders explains why that's not the case.